Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2012

Continuing a long-standing New Year's tradition, we present an up-to-date list of the world's most visited BitTorrent sites. At the start of 2012 The Pirate Bay continues to pull in the most visitors, followed by Torrentz and KickassTorrents. The six-year-old TV-torrent distribution group EZTV appears in the list for the first time, ranked 8th. Update: here is the list of 2013′s top torrent sites. Which torrent sites get the most visitors at the start of 2012? The most notable absentee this year is TorrentReactor, one of the oldest torrent sites on the Internet. Below we have compiled a list of the 10 most-visited torrent sites at the start of the new year. 1. The Pirate Bay is probably the best known BitTorrent brand on the Internet. Alexa Rank: 78 / Compete Rank: 577 / Last year #1 2. Torrentz has been the leading BitTorrent meta-search engine for years. Alexa Rank: 142 / Compete Rank: 1.053 / Last year #2 3. Alexa Rank: 257 / Compete Rank: 1,165 / Last year #4 4. 5. 6. 7. 9.

BitLet - the BitTorrent Applet In the summer of 2007, shortly after launching Novlet, Daniele and I still had time to spare and were looking for something new to build. Sure enough, within a short period, Daniele came up with the idea that would soon become BitLet: a BitTorrent client that could run in a browser without requiring users to install anything on their computer. Back then, browsers had very limited capabilities: AJAX had been recently introduced (in 2005), web applications were moving from static pages to dynamic client UIs but no browser could do things like opening sockets and writing files locally, central requirements for a peer to peer file sharing application. We found a solution in an unlikely piece of technology: Java applets. One of the main reasons is that Java applets didn’t look that great. What made BitLet possible, however, was the idea that we could have the applet implement the BitTorrent protocol while relying only on the browser for its interface.